Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
When one calls a strike, who hears the call, who attunes and listens to it? How to listen to the call of a strike? What prevents one from hearing this call or stops one from listening to it?
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
